Motivational Quotes

Love

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

10.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

11.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

12.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

19.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

30.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

34.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

41.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

42.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

43.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

44.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

46.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles